I wasn’t sure if I wanted to talk about this yesterday (a LOT of stuff happened with me and Cola, and some I’ve forgotten what he said). But there’s one thing I said (by complete accident) that has compromised something Cola was planning to do.
There’s going to possibly be a few hidden sections (due to how long the title is). So let’s get started (with a little weather science stuff);
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A (very early) displacement of the polar vortex
Warned two weeks ago of “near record breaking wind chills” by meteorologists, to happen Monday night into Tuesday. And with it, a chance of that strange frozen white stuff that falls from the sky and makes Kovo jealous when he hears others getting it (snow).
Monday, it went from 60*F to 29*F in less than 24 hours (by a very strong cold front the arctic high needed to work its way into the U.S.).
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Before I continue, I should explain what the ‘polar vortex’ is. And no, it’s not the dreaded snow-hurricane with the -150*F core from The Day After Tomorrow. The ‘polar vortex’ is simply the core of where all the dangerously cold air is kept, over the arctic circle that forms with Earth’s rotation putting the northern hemisphere into winter. Occasionally during the winter months, a powerful cold front from Canada tends to disturb this natural balance of warm and cold, causing the high to break apart and send a chunk of it towards the United States.
This is what is known as a ‘displacement of the polar vortex’. But a non-technical term simply means an ‘arctic blast of cold air’.
Tuesday (yesterday), this happened…
For ones that don’t know what the above graphic means, these are temperature differences from a day (24 hours) ago. Red (and brighter colors) means a major increase in temp, and Blue (with darker colors) means a major decrease in temp.
40*F temperature drop in 24 hours for my city. THAT IS INSANE!! I have NEVER in my life, witnessed something like this. But this is what a full-on displacement of the polar vortex looks like! And just look how far south it traveled.. into Mexico! This is some SERIOUS cold! And for it to happen this early (not even mid-fall), is incredible.
But this isn’t the first time in history it’s ever happened. Infact it has happened on that very day, 108 years (over a decade) ago; back in 1911, as demonstrated by this graph.
It was actually worse in 1911, if you can actually believe that! But also note the
graphs, with the one of 1911 occurring in the rockies and the plains. This one occurred in the plains and the Midwest (how lucky for me, huh?)
The displacement is currently sitting right ontop of us, and will slowly start to go up the Northeast US back into the arctic circle to reform the vortex (where temps will gradually moderate back close to near normal for this time of year(60*F)).
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Cola VS Rusty
So I hope you enjoyed that really fascinating weather science course, because it’s sadly time to go back to talking about VRChat drama. And boy was there a lot yesterday, and I don’t know how to even start.
Joined Cola in the VRChat Hub. A few seconds after I joined, he left the world. Well now. I also saw Fluffy there, but AFK. Saw Cola went to Avatar Testing and followed him there. He’s Bill again, and playing charades with me. I’m waving my hands too, trying to say “why u no use mic?” (literally pointing to my mic indicator). He wasn’t understanding me, so how am I supposed to him? Finally said it, and he did.. being really quiet, saying there are people that are sleeping near him and he can’t move in VR. This perplexed me.. I was about ready to say “then why are you in VR if you can’t move an inch?” Suddenly he talks his normal voice, kidding me. Ok, sure.
Tells me his interesting day (while I was asleep IRL) of getting two paintball guns and only one of them was working, but somewhat managed to get it working. Then expected me to have a more interesting day than waking up, getting breakfast, working on blog posts while listening to music.
Perfect timing with that song, Elpis. Too bad the emoji plugin’s broken with this WordPress 5.3 update (thanks, WordPress! :P) But I digress, Cola felt my life was “sad”.
But also said he wasn’t judging. Oh really. But whatever, I’m not going to judge your hobbies. Let’s just continue. Drafy and another friend showed up. Started alright, but I felt Drafy was going a bit too far with the lewd talk (especially of what Cola told me); putting him in a corner. I felt this was too much and left for a private world and drug Cola in (to protect him).
He however, didn’t feel this was needed, saying it was OK. And when I reminded him of his own words, he said “talking about it doesn’t bother me, doing it makes me unable to sleep.” But when asking “so why did you say you weren’t going to sleep when I was telling you what Blue will do to me once he gets VR?” He said how he was kidding.
After that, he wanted to be more active today (going to Murder 2, that I only watched). I’m sorry hun, but I get too agitated when I lose. I’d rather just not play. Wish we could, you know… just relax and cuddle, like we did before? But it seems you’re so jacked up on energy drinks (and are hyper AF) to do that.
10 minutes later, Cola I feel could see I wanted to do something else.. so he went to Murder 1.
*facepalm* Why can’t we just play Cards Against Humanity, or one of these Beat Saber worlds… something that I’m actually kind of good at? But I went in anyway. But instead of more Murder, I was heading to Rusty’s world for the Best Boi 3.5. Oh joy. All I could do is hope the man of the hour doesn’t show up. Little did I know, things would be taking a nosedive.
But it started alright for awhile (got to hang out with a few friends for a bit). And
then.. Rusty joined. I started walking the other direction as quick as I could, wanting to say “NOPE NOPE nope nope nope!!” and diving into a building, Cola following me. I felt safe
here, hoping Rusty didn’t follow us. And he walked in. SHIT!! I nervously grinned from ear to ear IRL, knowing we were in a pickle. Too bad mouth tracking isn’t a thing (yet, or he would see it).
He asked how we were doing, then he saw Cola and was trying to hug and kiss him. I saw Cola really trying to back away from him, and I tried desperately to think of something to get us out of this mess. Tried saying “he doesn’t like being hugged”, but Rusty wasn’t buying that; saying “he doesn’t know it, but he’s beautiful.” So I tried to go with that. Then he tried to do it again, with Cola hiding behind me.
Came up with an idea to get Rusty away from him, and said “well, he’s kind of taken” (and looked at Cola, trying to say as quiet as I could “just play along!!”). But Cola looked at me
like “..wtf, no!” Just be calm and play along! Sadly my split-second desperate idea never worked, but Rusty got distracted by someone else and left the room.
Cola ran off, probably disgusted at what he heard from me. Drafy showed up, unsure what was going on. Told him I was looking for Cola and he helped me look for him. It wasn’t long until Drafy ran up to me and told me he found him.
I found Cola later and motioned for him to follow me, and lead him out of town to explain what happened.
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He told me to “please never say that again”. ..Cola, I was trying to help you!! But, fine. I’m sorry. We went to a more quiet area, even though I still felt like shit for that. Said he forgave me and expected me to drop this, but he fails to realize that it takes me a LONG time to forget something like this.
Then he asked me why I don’t like Rusty, saying he doesn’t like him too. Told him about Creepery and how Rusty wronged him. When I was done, he said he “never really liked Creepery”. Well that’s fine. And his reason is him and Rusty used to be really good friends. The way he talked, Rusty might be the second person that wronged him in the past.
Said that Rusty used to be nice, then one day he “changed for the worst”. One day, he told Cola to “leave”. Nothing more, just “leave”.
But a year later, it seems Rusty wants him back as a friend. But Cola understandably is unsure and still hurt of the way Rusty treated him. But again he expects me to just forget of trying to help him out and being treated like this, then said he was going to head back.
I stayed there, not knowing what to do.. but clearly feeling Cola just slipped below Blue in my favorite list.
He wouldn’t give me any alternatives of what to say, only that I “could had used anything else but that”. Lunar popped in, wanting to know what’s wrong. I didn’t want to tell her and tried avoiding her. Eventually she got fed up with it. No offense, Lunar. You just couldn’t help with this.
Went back to go see Fluffy (and sat down in a chair, upset at myself and kind of frustrated at Cola, hoping Fluffy would see me and help out). Yet I just wanted some time to
myself, but I also felt Cola was going to come in and wonder if I’m OK. Nearly a half an hour later, he actually did join (but not really to check up on me). He was quite surprised when finding out I was till bothered by words I told him. ..Why, just WHY would he be bothered by such words?! I thought he wanted to become more than part of the group! WTF happened?!
Cola doubled down on his words, saying he has fully forgiven me. But he saw his words weren’t convincing to me.
So he tried a different (and calmer) approach, asking if I actually meant what I said. No I didn’t, I was trying to protect you. But I didn’t originally say that, instead I explained how I get protective over someone or something that I really like (even a community). But before I could continue, others joined off of Cola (and their friends joined off of them).
I tried focusing on being friendly and stuff, but I really wanted to continue. Quietly made an Invite+ instance of Avatar Testing and joined it, inviting Cola in. There I explained the rest.
“I have made a critical mistake.” Cola said, finally realizing I was trying to help him. But he defended himself in one of the most interesting ways I’ve heard;
-He wanted to see if Rusty ‘wanted him back’.. and I kind of screwed that up for him.
-Blames himself for not telling me the story sooner, but also says he wasn’t planning to as he felt I didn’t need to know.
I’m kind of upset about that. He shouldn’t be holding that info from me. If I had known what Cola was doing, I would had chosen different words. But like he said, he didn’t feel he needed to, and now he regrets not doing so.. and apologizes. *sigh*.. Apology accepted. Snuggled him to show I didn’t have anymore bad feelings. And that snuggle was pretty awesome; resting his head on my arm. Almost on par with Jero.
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After that, he laid down and started telling me a bunch of stories of his life;
–getting bullied in school and wanting revenge by shooting the guy with a paintball and accidentally shooting him in the eye. The problem is the pellet was a hollow-point, which can cause moderate to major internal damage to organs. But they were never able to trace it to him, so no jailtime. But, it has changed him to be a lot more careful when handling any firearm.
–When he was 8, he was in a boy scout-like thing, making sure kids the kids were all accounted for. There was a street. Three kids crossed safely.. the forth, got hit by a bus. Says he still has nightmares of what he saw. The kid didn’t survive.
–A story of his left leg, that I could had sworn I heard before (but I don’t think it was from him). Was with his father on a tractor (at the back), getting his leg caught in a machine and screaming for dear life (but his father couldn’t hear him). Passed out and woke up in a hospital, and the doctor said that he’s lucky the leg didn’t get snapped off or anything of the sort. He lifted up his leg and tells me if he puts too much weight, it hurts. And if he twists it, it hurts.
Aww.. don’t you worry hun, you won’t ever have to go through that again. Told me that’s why he loved me, because I’m always willing to listen and make him feel better.
Wanted that evening to never end (me and him nuzzling and licking eachother), but sadly it had to with him saying he needed to go to bed.
But before he did, he told me that whoevver he meets.. he loves me more. And that just made my evening.
So it went from weird, boring, bad, really bad… to awesome. Plus he told me I’m the only one he’s ever told of those stories, because he 110% trusts me. And I will never.. EVER betray that trust. This is a guaranteed promise.
He went from almost being close to Red, to shooting WAY above Blue as my new favorite.
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But I’m not done yet– I wanted to go to Lunar and apologize, and she just happened to be in a joinable instance. When I got there, I changed to the Loli Sniper and took a peek through my scope to see where they all were. Trying to keep my right hand steady, I searched around. No sign of Lunar. VRChat lied to me, now she’s in a private world. Dag nabit!!
Welp, Cola did say to “have a lot of fun” (as I reloaded my sniper rifle).
…So I did, sniping everyone from a dark area!! They definitely took notice of all the blood leaking from their heads. Heh! One of them came out of the house and started looking for me, which I quickly respawned and ran for the other side, only to snipe more.
One time, they were getting so fucking annoyed with the random sniper shooting at
them, that half of them ran out and were looking for me. Hid in the water as they got close.
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I don’t know HOW in the fuck they didn’t see me! HAHAHA!! My lord, was it funny. Another time, this orange avatar (when I was on the right side of the house, sniping their friends) thought they saw me and ran for the bushes. Respawned before they got
there.
Watching the person as they were looking around the bush, thinking I was still there! Even more funny, I was sniping them while they were frantically looking for me! Would had even been funnier if the person ragequitted and left.
This is the time when Fluffy joined the instance. We went to another instance, and we had a.. different kind of ‘fun’, if you get what I mean. And that was a stress reliever and a half. It was very good, and it’ll be even better once he gets VR.